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JINSA Fellow Evelyn Gordon on why Israel's limited capabilities and the need to avoid starting a war will necessitate a smaller-scale operation than the U.S. blueprint of multiple airstrikes over many days.

JINSA Visiting Fellow Yaakov Lappin on the recent "Flytilla" where hundreds of anti-Israel activists planned to board passenger planes and fly to Israel to instigate confrontations in their attempts to delegitimize the state. The event failed due to the Israeli government's recognition that it was not obligated to allow organized, hostile members of foreign organizations onto its territory - indeed no democracy is.

Steven L. Pomerantz, JINSA's Director of Counter-Terrorism Programs and former Chief of Counter-Terrorism at the FBI addresses the threat Iran could pose should they choose to utilize existing resources in the U.S. to mount a terrorist attack.

Carl von Clausewitz, the renowned Prussian military theorist, famously wrote that war is merely a continuation of politics by other means. If so, then the Obama Administration has disastrously misunderstood the Clausewitzian dictum when it comes to Israeli security.

Rear Admiral Terence E. McKnight, USN (ret.), member of JINSA's Board of Advisors, analyzes Iran's ability to close the Strait of Hormuz, the legal and military ramifications of such a closure, and how the U.S. Navy would seek to reopen that strategic waterway, critical to the global economy.

In the latest JINSA Analyis, JINSA Advisory Board Member Maj. Gen. Larry Taylor, USMCR (Ret.), discusses the coming cuts in defense spending and how making these cuts in uncertain times could be could be a repeat of past mistakes.

As long as Iran and al Qaeda threaten the United States, Yemen's Houthi rebellion and al Qaeda's presence in Yemen work against U.S. and Saudi interests and security regardless of who governs from Sanaa. Tackling these issues is key to ensuring Yemen's long-term stability and the principal way to protect America, argues JINSA Research Associate Zach Paikin.

The ongoing consolidation of power by the anti-liberal AKP government of Prime Minister Erdogan in Turkey may well represent a longer term threat to Western interests in the Middle East than the ruling mullahs in Iran, argues JINSA Research Associate Zach Paikin.